Since hosting the Olympic Games in 1992, Barcelona has boomed. The city's urban development has gone hand in hand with a clean-up of the more colourful parts of the old town and Barcelona is now a lively, cosmopolitan city with a population of just under 2 million. Set between the mountains and the...

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Gaudí's Casa Vicens opens as new public museum in Barcelona.Casa Vicens, the first home designed and built by Modernist Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) has opened as a museum in Barcelona...

The Catalonians who went to the polls on 9 November voted overwhelmingly in favour of the formation of a state independent from Spain. About 2.2 million people, out of an eligible electorate of 5.4 mi...

Over 70 per cent of Catalonians still want to hold a referendum on 9 November on independence from Spain, even though the popular vote was suspended by a ruling of the country's constitutional court o...

Barcelona's El Prat airport has been classified as the best airport in southern Europe for the third year running according the Skytrax survey of 13 million passengers in 120 countries. The survey tak...

Barcelona is hosting the Mobile World Congress for the ninth year running. Considered the largest congress in the mobile phone industry it hosts 1,800 companies and about 77,000 visitors during the fo...

Travel by train between Barcelona and Paris has now become 30 minutes faster and without any changes. The time between the two cites in the new TGV launched on 15 December now takes 6 hours 25 minutes...

Barcelona is promoting various forms of alternative transport during Mobility Week from 22-29 September. These include car sharing, cultural tours by bike, a photo competition and the Barcelona City C...

To coincide with the opening of the Barcelona Motor Fair on 11 May the head of the Catalan government, Artur Mas, has announced a plan for a car and motorbike cluster in the Barcelona area to support...